" If you've got too much volume in your board you'll probably go real fast as you'll always be planing around on top of the water. But, you'll lack control because you simply won't be able to get enough board in the water through your turns. If you don't have enough volume in your board you'll always be able to sink a rail for control through turns, but the rails will overload and you won't have any speed coming out of your turns. If, however, you've got a correct amount of volume well distributed in your board you'll be able to weight and un-weight the rails of your board controlling and generating speed out of your turns.

Hey i've just started surfing and i've been hiring a 7.2 fish board. i've just been given a second hand 'herbert' board i measured it as just over 7 foot and it is very thin and light wieght. ithe only infomation on the board is that it is designed and hand shaped by jamie herbert. i've looked all over the net but i cant find anything on it. if anyone could give me some more information on it that would be great. cheers.

There's a guy I've talked to a couple of times for my website's blog. His name is Rich Blundell and he's a great guy - he started out in New England and has moved over to live in the UK. He's going to start running some long weekend shaping courses and his site is: http://www.grainsurf.com/I would definitely check him out if interested in making your own board!

Ooh wrote:There's a guy I've talked to a couple of times for my website's blog. His name is Rich Blundell and he's a great guy - he started out in New England and has moved over to live in the UK. He's going to start running some long weekend shaping courses and his site is: http://www.grainsurf.com/I would definitely check him out if interested in making your own board!

Rich also runs the tree to sea site - didn't know he was over here now - my first HWS was one of his designs, well cool fella